Doing Children’s Books – “It’s a bloody nightmare!” John Burningham

Highly recommended John Burningham feature in the Telegraph

If you tell people you do children’s books, they say, ‘What fun!’ There’s no fun attached to it at all, it’s a bloody nightmare. I find it very difficult. When I get an adult project, I rejoice. They’re easier than children’s books because you don’t have this immense simplification that you need when communicating with children. It’s not just balloons and clowns and parties and ‘bad’ drawing: it’s terribly important what children have to read, particularly now when everybody’s staring at screens. I fear for this generation. I know there are tremendous benefits we get from technology, but just staring into a screen worries me somewhat. It has to be cool to read a book.

via Inside John Burningham’s world – Telegraph.